How to get org.mate.CPUFreqSelector polkit access working for specified user group?

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Could someone help me out and direct me on how to get polkit access as group member to org.mate.cpufreqselector (addon cpufreq in mate-panel)? I been trying to get it to work and I am missing something.....

Would someone be so kind to help me out? If you change the ipausers to sudo or wheel it should work on most systems I think.

/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.mate.CPUFreqSelector.rules

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if (action.id == "org.mate.cpufreqselector" &&
        subject.isInGroup("ipausers")) {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

I also tried:

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.mate.CPUFreqSelector.conf

<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
  <policy group="ipausers">
    <allow own="org.mate.cpufreqselector"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.mate.cpufreqselector"/>
    <allow receive_sender="org.mate.cpufreqselector"/>
  </policy>
</busconfig>

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Hi @jelledj :slight_smile:

Do you mean this ?

Peek 2020-12-09 20-57

3

Yes, but then as normal user without having to provide root access, so with polkit authentication. How do I create the policy or rules that a group has authentication to the org.mate.cpufreqselector?

4

It have to work without any password be default (in my case it is not asking password).

If you just want to change it without input any password, maybe just apt-reconfigure the package will help ?

Here is the content of my /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.mate.cpufreqselector.policy

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC
          "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN"
          "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1.0/policyconfig.dtd">
<policyconfig>

  <vendor>The MATE Project</vendor>
  <vendor_url>http://www.mate-desktop.org</vendor_url>
  <icon_name>mate-cpu-frequency-applet</icon_name>

  <action id="org.mate.cpufreqselector">
    <description>Change CPU Frequency scaling</description>
    <message>Privileges are required to change the CPU Frequency scaling.</message>
    <defaults>
      <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
      <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
    </defaults>
  </action>

</policyconfig>

Maybe to set this 2 lines like this and restart polkit or reboot :

<allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>yes</allow_active>
5

I solved it by:

/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.mate.cpufreqselector.pkla

[org.mate.cpufreqselector]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.mate.cpufreqselector
ResultActive=yes
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